in his leadership following reports into lockdown parties in downing street. pressure on the scottish government over fairies as a fat head of the network says services are deteriorating. a feast fit for a clean, preparations and pulsing for next week and s platinum jubilee celebrations. a feast fit for a queen, preparations and pulsing for next week and s platinum jubilee celebrations. hello, welcome to bbc news. texas is where we began this hour. police say it was the wrong decision to delay entering the classroom in a school in the city of uvalde, where 21 people were killed by a gunman on tuesday. salvador ramos who was 18, barricaded himself inside the room, shooting 19 children and two teachers. it took 53 minutes for armed police to eventually go in. as the local people come to terms with tragedy, grief is turning into anger. here s our north america editor, sarah smith. the police broke windows at the school to get children out after the shooting, carrying some of t
Good morning to our viewer in the United States and Around The World. Im kasie hunt. It is wednesday, october 25th. 5 00 a. M. Here in washington where we begin another day without a speaker of the house. About seven hours from now the house is scheduled to vote again to try to fix that. So who might the next speaker of the house be . Well, you would be forgiven to not recognizing this man, that is 51yearold mike johnson of louisiana whose relative complete lack of public profile might be exactly why he could become the last man standing. He was picked late last night after a tumultuous day on capitol hill. Republicans spent most of the day voting to pick tom emmer as their nominee. And he is not exactly a house house name either, but he served in house leadership before. And that seems to be exactly the problem. Emmer was selected as next pick for speaker yesterday around lunchtime, but he was out before dinner. And that was mostly because donald trump knew too much about him. After e
Join the millions of people taking back their privacy by Downloading Duckduckgo On Mobile and desktop today. Tonight. We have been discussing this hour this report from reuters that the nation of qatar has been trying to organize a sort of hostages, prisoner swap, trying to arrange some sort of Diplomatic Initiative to get women, to get hostages and children who are being held by Hamas Terrorist Group exchange for female prisoners who are being held in israeli jails. Reuters have actually reported that not only is qatar working on that. They are working on it in coordination with u. S. Government. We have been trying to get confirmation that the u. S. Government is involved in any such effort to try to arrange such kind as walk. I dont have an answer for you on that. But i do have this from an Nsc Spokesperson just tonight on the air. Weve been working excuse me, we are working around the clock to confirm missing u. S. Citizens whereabouts, and will be relentless in our efforts to secu
Tonight. We have been discussing this hour this report from reuters that the nation of qatar has been trying to organize a sort of hostages, prisoner swap, trying to arrange some sort of Diplomatic Initiative to get wome hostages and children who are being held by Hamas Terrorist Group exchange for female prisoners who are being held in israeli jails. Reuters have actually reported that not only is qatar working on that. They are working on it in coordination with u. S. Government. We have been trying to get confirmation that the u. S. Government is involved in any such effort to try to arrange such kind as walk. I dont have an answer for you on that. But i do have this from an msnbc spokesperson just tonight on the air. Weve been working excuse me, we are working around the clock to confirm missing u. S. Citizens whereabouts, and would be relentless in our efforts to secure their freedom. If confirmed, they are held by hamas, but we will not comment about diplomatic implications. So,
When these freed hostages land overnight in the d. C. Area, they will be immediately offered help from the Defense Department at adjusting to life on the outside. And so far we havent heard anybody say anything but positive things that americans are heading home but there are a lot of complaints about the deal to get them here. Ransom payment 6 billion. A billion bucks per prisoner. President biden says today five innocent americans imprisoned in iran are finally coming home after many months of difficult and principled american diplomacy. Americans since held 2015 says im dying to find out what gadgets now exist. When i was taken hostage the iphone 6 s had just come out. You cannot imagine what an 8 year itch feels like. The returning americans have already spoken to President Biden and Secretary Of State blinken. I can tell you that it was for them, for me an emotional conversation. To get the Five Americans home, President Biden worked to unfreeze 6 billion in iranian funds. That ar